[Digest of papers in the office of the Board of Trade on the subject of the African trade, copies of...

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[Digest of papers in the office of the Board of Trade on the subject of the African trade, copies of documents, and a collection of holograph letters and documents on the same subject and concerning the settlement of the Black Poor at Sierra Leone, ca. 1707-1794] [manuscript] / compiled by George Chalmers, between 1788 and 1794.

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[Digest of papers in the office of the Board of Trade on the subject of the African trade, copies of documents, and a collection of holograph letters and documents on the same subject and concerning the settlement of the Black Poor at Sierra Leone, ca. 1707-1794] [manuscript] / compiled by George Chalmers, between 1788 and 1794.

Author / Creator

Chalmers, George, 1742-1825.

Publisher

[ca. 1707-1794]

Call Numbers

RB/F326.1/1

Record Identifier

74Vv05gpQdwX

MMS ID

991015968799702626

Language

English

Formats

Manuscripts

Physical Description

Physical content

1 vol. of bound textual records.

Publication information

Publisher

[ca. 1707-1794]

Place of Publication

England

Subjects

Subjects and topics

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Scope and Contents

Summary

It appears from these documents that George Chalmers, as clerk, was directed to collect "the Papers of the late Board of Trade or from the Papers of His Majesty's Secretary of State having the Department of America and the West Indies all the information he can find of the several matters respecting which accounts are now ordered to be prepared by...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Spine title

Africa, slave trade manuscripts.

Other title

[Africa, various important manuscripts on the [history of the] Slave Trade 1536-1792 including autograph letters, collected by G. Chalmers]

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Chalmers, George, 1742-1825.

Author / Artists

England and Wales. Board of Trade.
Royal African Company.

Notes

General note

Includes list of names of the original group of "Black Poor", who were the first settlers to found a colony in Sierra Leone.

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Contextual Information

Biographical note

George Chalmers was born in 1742 in Scotland. He was appointed as chief clerk of the committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Foreign plantations in 1786. Chalmers died, on 31 May 1825. Referenced from the website of Senate House Library, University of London. http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/14/8910.htm...